No, because the method gives hair enough conditioner and water to properly condition the hair and work as a leave-in conditioner. Here is an excellent video explaining and showing you how to do it.ĭo you need to add any leave-in conditioner? You may need to add some conditioner, but the object is to keep squishing the conditioner and water to fully hydrate your strands until hair stops dripping. As you rinse, take the conditioner and water that drips into your hands and squish them back into your curls. To get hydrated and frizz-free curls, you start with freshly washed, soaking wet hair, bend forward in the shower, and apply conditioner evenly throughout your hair. The Squish to Condish method was created by Melissa Stites, a Naturall圜urly veteran who wanted to show curlies how to get hydrated hair without using a ton of conditioner. No, it is not a necessary step and let me tell you why but first, let’s explain the Squish to Condish method first. QuestionĪfter you Squish to Condish should you still use a leave in conditioner? Answer That is the perfect time to head over to our Curly Q&A like cindy1 did and ask your burning questions about any technique and what steps you need help with. A lot of what we do as curly girls is learn a new technique and then troubleshoot the issues that come up. Early on when attempting the curly girl method, I felt like scrunching my hair much at all would make my hair more frizzy, and would break up my curl clumps quite a bit.Īt the same time, I did recognize that scrunching my hair right at the end of my shower helped my hair to separate from one big blob into clumps.A photo posted by S A R A H on at 5:07pm PDTįinding the perfect routine or technique for frizz-free curls is not as easy as some make it out to be. I also recognized that if I walked around after my shower for quite a while, my roots would start to fall flat, and that scrunching again could help revive some waves to the top of my strands.įor about 2.5 years, my goal was to scrunch enough to form clumps but not so much as to cause my clumps to break up or get frizz. I would just scrunch a couple of times at the very end of my shower, scrunch each section of my hair once after applying my mousse, and then if my roots were really falling flat before I was done diffusing, I’d sometimes scrunch with a shirt (aka microplop – click for my microplopping tutorial) an additional time to avoid those flat/straight roots. I still don’t think that was a bad technique. I’ve learned a few things, and realized a couple things about my own hair, in the last couple of months that have changed my technique. ![]() Let me get a bit more into the details first though!Īre scrunching and squish to condish the same thing? I did one wash day where I did a little scrunching, and one wash day where I did a lot of scrunching, so I could compare for you all. Scrunching and squish to condish are not exactly the same thing. Scrunching is any time that you grasp your hair in your hand and squeeze. Meaning it could be done on wet, damp or dry hair. Squish to condish is squeezing your hair in your hand while you have cupped water in your hand. If you look up squish to condish tutorials on YouTube, you’ll see people in the shower, cupping their hand to collect water, and then taking that cupped hand to grasp a section of hair and scrunch it. I personally also consider it ‘squish to condish’ if I scrunch my hair while it’s absolutely soaking wet. ![]() ![]() I find it extremely tedious to continuously cup water into my hair. More tedious than what I am willing to do, frankly. My lower-effort version of squish to condish while in the shower is to pop my head under the showerhead for a second or two, to get it soaking wet. Then I step out of the showerhead and squish while my hair is soaking wet, until it starts to lose some water. Then I step back under the showerhead for a second or two to soak it again, squish some more, etc. The purpose of squish to condish while in the shower is to spread out your conditioner, and to get water and conditioner into your hair strands. I read this article from “the science-y hair blog” titled: Conditioning technique: Squish To Condish, how it works. It helped me to understand how/why squish to condish is a more effective way of conditioning hair. In a nutshell though, it explains how traditional washing/conditioning methods don’t get hair strands evenly saturated, and don’t get hair strands evenly coated in conditioner, either. It explains (And shows) how squish to condish helps get water and conditioner over ALL of your hair, for a more successful conditioning.
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